The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


SENATE-A bill was introduced on the a5th
providing for the appointment of game ward
en- at $1,000 salary in each of the Congressional
districts, whose duty it shall be to enforce the
game laws and prosecute violations of the
same. The vote for United States Senator
was: Sawyer Rep.), 20; Winans Dem.), s.:
Cochrane Labor, 1.
ASSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To provide
for the appointment of an inspector of steam
engines; to exempt the wages of a man of fam
lily to the extent of $50 per month; to make
interest fifteen instead of twenty-five per cent
to be charged on money advanced for tax deed
OF lands when the original owner redeems land;
to compel justices of the peace to require
bonds for costs in actions for personal abuse
The vote for United States Senator was: Saw
yer tRep.l So; Winans Deml 81; Cochrane
Labor, 5.
SENATE-Mr. Fritz introduced resolution on
the 26th providing for joint committee of five.
three from the Assembly and two from the
Senate, to investigate the charge made in the
report OF the Commissioner of Statistics, to the
elect that Senator Fritz, Congressman-elect
Henry Smith and others were guilty of melting
the Milwaukee riots Referred to the Commit
tee on State Affairs.
ASsEMBLY-Bills were introduced: To repeaI
all present fish laws and to divide the State into
Tour game districts with warden for each at a
salary OF 81, 600 yearly; permitting actual dam
ages only to be obtained for the publication of
libel where it is shown no malice exists and
where retraction or correction is immediately
published: to allow sheriffs ten cents instead of
i've cents per mile in conveying in
sane persons TO asylums; to increase
the per diem of county surveyors from So to IS
per day. The bill appropriating $500 to buy
stationery for the State for the next two years
was passed.
In joint session the vote for United States
Senator was declared, as follows: Philetus
Sawyer (Rep). of Oshkosh, 81; John Winans
lDem.) of GAINESVILLE, 81; John Cochrane
Labor, of Waupun, 6. Mr.. Sawyer was de-
clared elected to succeed himself for the next
six years.
SENATE-Mr. Ware introduced bill on the
18th relating to the enticement of young girls
to public houses for immoral purposes 1t pro-
Vldes for the adjustment of hous- IF ill-fame,
makes it crime punishable by rom five to
hfteen years in State prison for any
man TO influence any unmarried woman
OF chaste character, wherever found, to
unlawful indulgences and that any per-
SON who knowingly allows his build
1ngs to be used for such purpose shall be i'm
prisoned from one to three years. Other bills
introduced provide that chronic insane in State
asylums be transferred to county asylums. and
SNNA~oASS ASSSANS
eral fund for their support; appropriating
$1,000 annually to the State Horticultural Soci-
ETY.; providing for the appointment of volunteer
game wardens in every county in the State.
AsSEMBLY-Mr. Chase introduced joint res
oiution providing for an amendment to the
constitution so that foreign-born persons who
have declared their intention to become citi-
zens OF this country can not vote in this State
until they have become full citizens and have
lived one year in the State. Bills were intro
duced: Providing that the one-mill school tax
now collected be apportioned among the coun-
ties in the proportion in which they
contribute to it; providing that actions
for the recovery of land sold for taxes
must be brought within one year after sale;
making it larceny for any bailee to fraudulently
convert any chattels in his possession: making
1t Unable by from $50 to 500 for any physician
failing to report to the register of deeds any
birth or death; providing that ballots be sealed
with sealing-wax by the election inspector as
soon as counted; making trespass where a per-
son is warned by the owner Unable by from s.
10 800. The bill repeating the law giving women
the right to vote at school elections was killed.
SENATE-Mr. Scofield introduced a bill on the
2oth authorizing the Governor to appoint com
miss or OF mineral statistics, who shall visit
all mines of the State and report annually on
them. 1t appropriates $4,000 annually for salary
and all expenses of the Office The members of
the joint committee on reapportionmento of Sen
ate and Assembly districts were announced as
follows: Messrs. Ginty, of Chippewa; Hoyt OF
Vernon; Merrill, of Ashland; Ware of Fond
du Lac; Kennedy. of Outagamie; and Carey, OF
ManltoWoc. Adjourned to the Dist.
Administration were introduced
praying for memorial to Congress asking the
general Government to assume charge of all
coal lands and instructing the Committee on
Labor to make an extended inquiry into the
subject of contract Labor. Bills were intro
troduced: Appropriating $4,000 to complete
Science Hall as fire-proof building and $4,000
to equip it; exempting from license all enter
tainments in cities. provided they are under al
management. The following were announced
as members of the joint committee to reappor.
ton the Senate and Assembly districts: Messrs.
Taylor, of Barron; Reynolds, of Walworth
Hooker, of Dodge; Luchsinger, of Green; Noel
roy, of Milwaukee; Spratt, of Sheboygan
Perkins, of Adams; Fisher, of Monroe; Hall, of
Oconto; Keogh, of Milwaukee; Horn of Ozau-
kee; and Grimshaw, of Juneau. Adjourned to
the 31st.
SENATE-Mr. Fritz introduced bill on the
Slst making it felony for any officer of law Oh
other person or corporation to employ any
armed Pinkerton men for any purpose what
ever. Any violation shall be visited with i'm
prisonment of from four to eight years for the
employer as wall as the Pinl1erton men, It
also prevents judges from regarding any thing
printed of them as contempt of court and re-
quires them to sue for libel Other bills were
to appropriate 1000 to the State Dairymen's
Association for the next two years; to confer
corporate powers and privileges on State banks
to provide for the organization of cooperative
companies.
AsSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: Provid-
ing that all industrial and municipal corpora
lions be compelled to pay wages weekly, and
that violation be punished by fine of from
$40 to $50 for each offense; providing for the
appropriation of 100000 for an Agricultural
College; authorizing sheriffs to offer rewards
not to exceed $500 for the return of escaped
prisoners convicted OF felony; to increase fees
of circuit court jurors from 50 to $3.50 per day;
to punish by fine of from 50 to 800 any poacher
who enters inclosed land without permission.
A resolution was introduced shutting off new
business on February 10.